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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

Tired of your old lady decorating the house with the same tired, vintage art-nouveau “French” posters we all recognize from Pottery Barn catalogs? Fight back with one-of-a-kind vintage auto and motorcycle prints from Vintage Auto Posters. Classic Porsche, Mercedes Benz and Ferrari prints can add some masculinity to your home while oozing the subtle class [...]

Walletica

The combination of cartography and typography is pretty much everything GP could ask for in a print. Clearly we’re not alone in this sentiment, judging by Axis Map’s decision to create the Typographic Maps ($15-$195) series. These prints accurately depict the streets, highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of Chicago or Boston using nothing [...]

10 Movie Posters Inspired by Men's Style

What can we say? We’re suckers for cool posters that go above and beyond the typical dorm room fair. This latest batch we’ve discovered by Moxy Creative highlights 10 films via their iconic or hilarious style. Available as 11.75″ x 15.5″ prints, buying one will cost your $30 plus $7 shipping — which is pretty [...]

Luke... I Am Your Travel Agent

Justin Van Genderen, a graphic designer from Chicago (not Dagobah), has crafted these beautifully minimalist travel posters that remind us of those deco pieces from decades past. However, unlike those that lured countless Americans down Route 66 and to the Grand Canyon in the backs of station wagons, these point wandering souls towards notable destinations [...]

Television Shows Get the Modern Pop Art Treatment

If you liked the minimalist Quentin Tarantino Film posters or the international year of astronomy prints that we featured recently, then you’ll love this collection of Iconic TV posters brought to our attention by Boing Boing. Conceived by Austrian designer Albert Exergian, these prints come from his love of posters, modernism, and, of course, television. [...]

A Unique Tribute to America's Biggest Cult Director

These posters may not make sense to those unfamiliar with the works of Quentin Tarantino, but that’s part of their fun. Created by artist Ibraheem Youssef, each of these minimalist movie posters cleverly hints at key elements or parts of Tarantino’s films any fan should immediately understand. Not to mention they’re also incredibly more attractive [...]

Cheesy motivational posters rarely do anything more than perpetuate cliché sentiments and Office Space quotes. If you’re looking for some decor for your home office (besides a vintage map), then take a look at Right Brain Terrain’s Alternative Motivational Posters. They’ve got a nice lithograph feel to them and manage to conjure up notions of [...]

[click on image to enlarge] I read magazines back to front. It’s a peculiar quirk of mine and there is no explanation. Sometimes it yields surprises – like the arrival of this month’s issue of Men’s Vogue. When I opened the back cover I was greeted with a fold out of the Massimo Vignelli designed [...]

Whether or not you’re a fan of sci-fi you should be watching or DVR’ing Battlestar Galactica. It’s a timely and thrilling show about a creation of man called the Cylons that rebelled against humans. Problem is they look like humans and copied themselves. One on the show is quite the looker. This set of five [...]